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Lecture 1: Forces and Newton's laws

Submitted by Henry Tan on

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  1. A force is a relationship
  2. A force is a vector

Newton's laws of motion

3rd law

 For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

2nd law

Force is a vector, F

Acceleration is a vector, a

F=ma

Galileo’s experiment

Leaning tower of Pisa

No matter what the difference in weight, two heavy objects will fall simultaneously at virtually the same speed

Experiment: drop of two objects with different masses

Resistance from air

a=F/m

Massive the object, more tends to resist changes in its state of motion

Gladiator

helmet  (design issue, protection and mobility)

1st law

An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

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Dear Mr. Tan,

 Yesterday (thursday, 4th oct.) there werent enough pages of notes to go around...and I asked you for some extras. You said they would be here, and so far they are not. When should I expect them here?

Thank you,

Rafael 

Fri, 10/05/2007 - 11:23 Permalink